The big picture: Polling over the last few months has suggested that Texas, due in part to its changing demographics, has become increasingly favorable for Democrats. [More]
Well, good gee golly f*****g whiz, who could have foreseen that?
[Via Mack H]
There is something fascinating and weird about the stubborn insistence of Texans that their state is never going to change even as the state is filled up with people who very much want to change it. Maybe not in 2020 but for sure every election after that, Texas will vote blue.
ReplyDeleteCorrect. The largest cities/counties are firmly D and in this election cycle may outweigh the rural counties.
ReplyDeleteOf course it has nothing to do with the open borders; nor does the corona increases noted in the border cities.
There's this:
ReplyDelete"New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress". -- Article IV, Section 3, of The United States Constitution
But then there's this:
'The Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States[1] , approved by Congress on March 1, 1845, states:
"Third -- New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution; and such states as may be formed out of the territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri Compromise Line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State, asking admission shall desire; and in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory, north of said Missouri Compromise Line, slavery, or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited.”. '
So by some reckoning, Congress gave its approval in 1845.